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Vorticism, an offshoot of Cubism, was a short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century.

It was based in London but international in make-up and ambition.

The movement was announced in 1914 in the first issue of BLAST, which contained its manifesto and the movement's rejection of landscape and nudes in favour of a geometric style tending towards abstraction.

Ultimately, it was their witnessing of unfolding human disaster in World War I that " drained these artists of their Vorticist zeal ".